Q4HEALTH: Quality of Service and prioritisation for emergency services in the LTE RAN stack

García-Pérez, Cesar A.; Rios, Alvaro; Merino, Pedro; Katsalis, Kostas; Nikaein, Navid; Figueiredo, Ricardo Rodrigues; Morris, Donal; O’Callaghan, Terry

doi:10.1109/eucnc.2016.7561006

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“…The use cases proposed cover low‐latency peer‐to‐peer communications. In particular, we cover one of the scenarios described in the work of García‐Pérez et al, which shows an emergency situation where paramedics communicate with each other and with a hospital where there are specialists. In this scenario, we can consider several different use cases for the proposed fog solutions, as follows: IoT gateways, which can be used to gather information from patient sensors Vehicle‐to‐vehicle or vehicle‐to‐infrastructure communications between the different ambulances Multicast communications between the paramedic and other paramedic/s and hospital/s. …”

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“…25 The use cases proposed cover low-latency peer-to-peer communications. In particular, we cover one of the scenarios described in the work of García-Pérez et al, 26 which shows an emergency situation where paramedics communicate with each other and with a hospital where there are specialists. In this scenario, we can consider several different use cases for the proposed fog solutions, as follows:…”

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Experimental evaluation of fog computing techniques to reduce latency in LTE networks

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Merino

2017

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The changes in new mobile networks toward a full Internet protocol-based architecture have led to opportunities for service-oriented optimizations based on emergent technologies like fog computing, software-defined networking, or network function virtualization. This paper explores 2 ways of using these new technologies to reduce the latency in Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks. Both solutions reduce the path that the data packets should follow from the base station (evolved Node B [eNB]) to the network components that connect to the servers. The first solution, called Fog Gateway, is based on the interception of the packets in the tunnel at the eNB and their redirection to local servers running the fog services. This solution is fully compliant with the current LTE architecture and only requires new components. The second solution, called General Packet Radio Service Tunneling Protocol Gateway (GTP), is based on splitting the eNB's functionality to avoid unnecessary GTP encapsulation of the packets geared toward the fog services. This paper includes an analysis of the latency split in LTE networks, the evaluation of both solutions with experiments in an end-to-end LTE network testbed, and a discussion around their applicability in future fifth-generation networks. The results confirm that they are feasible to provide low-latency services and that they are compatible with some of the emergent paradigms (software-defined networking and network function virtualization) as well as with the studies on fifth-generation networks from the standardization bodies.

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